Cops slash research field of Industrial hemp

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Of all the places you would think the cops wouldn’t make this mistake – the Netherlands?

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police who mowed down what they thought were illicit marijuana plants were red-faced Thursday when it emerged they’d ruined a research group’s giant, officially sanctioned field of harmless hemp.
Police proudly announced Wednesday that they’d found more than 47,000 cannabis plants, with an estimated street value of nearly euro4.5 million ($6.45 million) concealed in a corn field in the Flevoland province east of Amsterdam.